502 words across 16 entries.

Worlds Await Listen on: Bandcamp

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Music is amazingly compact. It is strange how twelve hours of work could go into a four minute track. It's as if one could hide an entire world within each.

And that's what I feel music is. Hearing a new piece of music is like discovering a new world, feeling its wind and basking in its honey sun.

This album features no shortage of works inspired by fiction: tributes, rearrangements, commissions and tie-ins for my projects. But more importantly, each track here is a place captured in sound, and I hope you can discover it as you listen.

Spin Listen on: Bandcamp

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This was composed as a tie-in for my novel project Revolving Door. Through the shifts in style and mood, and the interaction of theme melodies, I try to recreate personalities and relationships of various characters in musical form, telling a multiplicity of stories.

Vesper Listen on: Bandcamp

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An extension of the fourth theme featured in Spin, belonging to the character Vesper, a soldier who has devoted her life to service and whose leaderly drive is rivalled only by her loyalty.

Time Corridors Listen on: Bandcamp

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A maze that leads through past and future. A chase by a nameless entity yet to exist.

Guiding Light Listen on: Bandcamp

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Another tie-in for Revolving Door, this time relating to a chapter of the same title. A girl has just been saved from prison by a young man she does not know (and a rather well-dressed one, at that), and he is taking her to see the city she has not laid eyes on for years.

MIDNIGHT BLACK Listen on: Bandcamp

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I relate this piece to a certain black-haired Mage in Of the Dragon, of the Stars.

Frost and Clockwork Listen on: Bandcamp

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My tribute to the webcomic Homestuck, which changed me in the best way. The melody came to me while I was reading, and the title is a reference to the names of two characters' planets.

Over the Hills Listen on: Bandcamp

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A circling dance, a ritual fire, a folk tune sung to drums and wine. Somewhere over the hills.

Thousand Tribes River Listen on: Bandcamp

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Commissioned and titled by my friend Felicia Prasaja Natasha for a trailer project she was working on.

Ruins: Crumbled Staircase Listen on: Bandcamp

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Commissioned and titled by my friend Felicia Prasaja Natasha for a trailer project she was working on.

Marketplaces Listen on: Bandcamp

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Composed as background music for my visual novel Compass. Travellers seeking strange wares at a faraway coastal marketplace.

Common Test 2 Listen on: Bandcamp

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The repeating piano motif features my 2012 CT2 grades.

'A' Levels Listen on: Bandcamp

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The repeating piano motif features my 'A' levels grades.

Of the Morning Listen on: Bandcamp

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The theme for Zethis, the White Knight in Of the Dragon, of the Stars, evoking the pastel colours of morning.

Unsaid Listen on: Bandcamp

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Written for my a midterm assignment Flash comic. It is the culmination of a story about friends who have grown apart, to the point that they cannot utter a sincere goodbye though one is about to leave the country.

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So it comes to this, this parody of

Everything we used to be, my friends

I'm not hurt, I'm just afraid

This is how it ends

Please don't cry, I'm not mad

Don't know why I have no tears

It's kind of sad that the fire will die without a sound

Now the wheel's turning round

And all I feel is the pounding of a thousand words unsaid